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A screenshot from Bissonnette’s Facebook page shows he “liked” the official account of the Israeli army.

This article is being updated as new information is available.

The Facebook account of the man charged in the shooting attack that killed six persons and injured several more at a Quebec City mosque on Sunday evening indicates he was a fan of US President Donald Trump, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, the Israeli army and other far-right groups.

A fellow student of the suspect has also confirmed he had strong pro-Israel, anti-immigration and pro-Trump views.

Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, was arrested as a suspect in the slayings several miles from the mosque, after he called police himself, the newspaper Le Soleilreported.

A source close to the investigation, told the newspaper La Presse that during the hours-long interrogation following his arrest, Bissonnette did not conceal his hostility toward Muslims.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeaucondemned the shooting as a “terrorist attack on Muslims in a center of worship and refuge.”

Bissonnette appeared before a judge in Quebec City on Monday afternoon and was charged with six counts of premeditated murder and five counts of attempted murder.

Pro-Israel, pro-Trump

“He has political ideas on the right, pro-Israel, anti-immigration,” Allard-Prus said. “I had a number of debates with him about Trump. He was obviously pro-Trump.”

Initially, police said there were two suspects and media named the other as Mohamed Khadir, reportedly in his 30s. He was detained near the mosque minutes after the shootings that took place when the building was packed for evening prayers.

But on Monday Quebec police said said only one of the men was a suspected shooter and the other was a witness.

The other man initially arrested and held over night before being released – his name is actually Mohamed Belkhadir – toldLa Presse that he had been been at prayers in the mosque on Sunday night, and then went outside to shovel snow on the steps. A short time later, he heard the gunshots that lasted 15 to 20 seconds. He then went inside to call emergency services. He saw an injured person and tried to assist. He then saw an armed man and ran away, not knowing the armed man was a police officer. “I thought it was someone who had come back to shoot,” he said.

Victims

On Monday evening Quebec authorities confirmed the names of the six persons killed.

They include Azzeddine Soufiane, 57, a Moroccan native and pillar of the local Muslim community who ran a grocery store near the mosque; Algerian native Abdelkrim (Karim) Hassane, 41; Mamadou Tanou Barry, 39, an accountant and married father, originally from Guinea; and Ibrahima Barry, 39, who worked for the public health system and had also immigrated from Guinea.

Also killed were Khaled Belkacemi, a professor of agriculture at the University of Laval and pharmacist Aboubaker Thabti.

His “likes” include the official Facebook pages of Trump, Le Pen, the “Israel Defence Forces” and a group called “United with Israel.”

He “liked” Richard Dawkins, a leading proponent of “new atheism,” which often veers into strident Islamophobia.

Bissonnette also “liked” the nationalist Parti Québécois which ran a losing general election campaign in 2014 on a “Charter of Values” that was widely seen as promoting intolerance of Muslims. The party has strongly condemned the attack.

Most of the postings on his personal page showed Bissonnette engaging in mundane activities, including fishing and enjoying cheese pairings.

But the Quebec publication La Pressereported that Bissonnette was known as a troll to members of a Facebook group called Bienvenue aux réfugiés – Welcome to Refugees.

According to the group’s administrator, Bissonnette often posted comments attacking foreigners in general and feminists, who he termed “feminazis.”

Trump’s false news.

Meanwhile, the far-right outlet Fox News initially focused on Belkhadir – about whom next to nothing was known except his name and his reported Moroccan ancestry. It later updated its story, but only after disseminating the ultimately false impression that a Muslim man had been the shooter.

Christopher Hitchens wrote the book God Is Not Great.
He argued simplistically that religion is the root of all evil and war. It kinda stunk.
I don't know that a mass shooter has to have good consistent thinking on everything, but I can see how someone could like Hitchens' book while harboring bigotry against a religion.

Ali, please add this to your website. It is a screenshot taken from Bissonnette's website before it was taken down. And he posted it on the same day in which the morning of which Trump signed the Muslim Ban.

Bissonnett posted the photo of a crusader about to kill and Bissonnette wrote "Hallelujah!" Two nights later, he went into the mosque and killed and injured many.

Please see it here and please post it in your website and tweets:

I tried posting it but the photo was not posted so please see it for yourself here as you scroll down...please ask all to retweet the particular photo and please mention that this is proof how Trump's Muslim Ban is dangerous and how it led to this carnage.

He liked a number of sites but he was consistent in his support for hatemongers such as Trump and Le Pen.

And he expressed joy on Jan 27 saying Halellujah which in likelihood is in response to Trump signing that Muslim Ban which was on that day and probably in the morning. This is assuming that Governor Oopsies Tweet having that screen save of that photo before Facebook took Bissonnette's page was correct.

A few thoughts from Quebec: All Canada's 'terrorist' incidents have been perpetrated by caucasian born Canadians. And the premier was just boasting that Quebec City hadn't had a murder in 21 months.

Nonetheless, Quebec City has been ripe for this. Of course the separatist Parti Quebecois (PQ) "has strongly condemned the attack," as they must. But they have nurtured this sentiment here among their “pure laine” base ever since the party leader blamed immigrants for losing the separation referendum in 1995.

The 2014 PQ Charter of Values to which you refer was an unbashedly overt anti-Muslim hatefest that would make Trump blush, front and centre for a year before it brought down the government. Nonetheless, the Federal election turned entirely on Prime Minister Harper dog whistling that sentiment in Quebec in late 2o15, with the front-running socialist NDP criticism of it losing their support to the muted Liberals, hence PM Justin Trudeau.

As part of that inherent anti-immigrant "nationalist" sentiment here, the Quebec City french shock jocks take unique licence against immigrants (i.e. 'slant-eyed chink' is openly used for any Asian! I'll spare you the rest), which influences local culture, and they see Montreal as sin city for multi-culturalism.

Bissonnette was an innocent enough looking young man who is nothing more than a product of his local culture. That said, as the Liberal Premiere has noted, most but not all Quebecois find this acting out deplorable.